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What (who) is platypus - definition
ARCHITECTURAL STRUCTURE
ECHIDNA; WOMBAT (diffractometer); KOWARI; PLATYPUS; KOALA – Quasi Laue Diffractometer; ECHIDNA - High Resolution Powder Diffractometer; KOWARI - Residual-Stress Diffractometer; PLATYPUS - Reflectometer; WOMBAT - High Intensity Powder Diffractometer; WOMBAT (Diffractometer); Open Pool Australian Lightwater reactor; KOALA - Quasi Laue Diffractometer; Lucas Heights Reactor; Lucas heights research reactor; OPAL reactor
![The Ge-115 monochromator has been acquired from the [[Brookhaven National Laboratory]].](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/NeutronMonochromatorBNL.jpg?width=200 "The Ge-115 monochromator has been acquired from the [[Brookhaven National Laboratory]].")
Platypus
·noun The duck mole. ·see under Duck.
platypus
['plat?p?s]
(also duck-billed platypus)
¦ noun (plural platypuses) a semiaquatic egg-laying Australian mammal with a sensitive pliable bill like that of a duck and webbed feet with venomous spurs. [Ornithorhynchus anatinus.]
Origin
C18: mod. L., from Gk platupous 'flat-footed'.
duck-billed platypus
![Early 20th century platypus [[matchbox]] label art](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/"Nam Sang Woo Safety Matches" platypus matchbox label art - from, Collectie NMvWereldculturen, TM-6477-76, Etiketten van luciferdoosjes, 1900-1949 (cropped).jpg?width=200 "Early 20th century platypus [[matchbox]] label art")
![Frederick Nodder]]'s illustration from the first scientific description in 1799 of "''Platypus anatinus"''](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Platypus (Ornithorhynchus anatinus). First Description 1799.jpg?width=200 "Frederick Nodder]]'s illustration from the first scientific description in 1799 of \"''Platypus anatinus\"''")
![electroreception]]. Its receptors are arranged in stripes on its bill, giving it high sensitivity to the sides and below; it makes quick turns of its head as it swims to detect prey.<ref name="Electro1"/>](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Platypus electrolocation.svg?width=200 "electroreception]]. Its receptors are arranged in stripes on its bill, giving it high sensitivity to the sides and below; it makes quick turns of its head as it swims to detect prey.<ref name=\"Electro1\"/>")
![Platypus House at [[Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary]] in Brisbane, Queensland](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Platypus house at Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary.jpg?width=200 "Platypus House at [[Lone Pine Koala Sanctuary]] in Brisbane, Queensland")
![Broken River, Queensland]]](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Schnabeltier 1.jpg?width=200 "Broken River, Queensland]]")
SEMI AQUATIC EGG LAYING MAMMAL NATIVE TO AUSTRALIA
Duck-billed platypus; Ornithorhynchus; Duck-billed Platypus; Ornithorhynchus anatinus; Mallangong; Duck billed platapus; Platipous; Ornithorhyncus anatinus; Platipus; Plata-ma-pus; Platamapus; Duckbilled platypus; Platypuses; Ornithorhyncus; Platapus; Duck-mole; Marsupial duckbill; Duck billed platypus; Duck-Mole; Duck Mole; Duck mole; Duckbill platypus; Duck billed playtupus; Platypi; Platypodes; Duckmole; Palatipuses; Duck-Billed Platypus; Ornithorhynchus Anatinus; Duck-Fox; Ornithorhyncus Anatinus; Monotremes oviparous, ovum meroblastic; Duck Billed Platypus; Ornithorhyncus paradoxus; Beaver duck
¦ noun see platypus.
Wikipedia
Open-pool Australian lightwater reactor
The Open-pool Australian lightwater reactor (OPAL) is a 20 megawatt (MW) swimming pool nuclear research reactor. Officially opened in April 2007, it replaced the High Flux Australian Reactor as Australia's only nuclear reactor, and is located at the Australian Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation (ANSTO) Research Establishment in Lucas Heights, New South Wales, a suburb of Sydney. Both OPAL and its predecessor have been commonly known simply as the Lucas Heights reactor.
Examples of use of platypus
1. Genes for making milk, which the platypus does in mammalian style despite not having nipples.
2. In 2000, Sydney chose three creatures the kookaburra, the duck–billed platypus and the echidna.
3. Below wall posters of bar graphs and pie charts, one kindergartner writes a descriptive sentence about a platypus.
4. Yet in its wackiness, Wilson said, the platypus genome offers an unprecedented glimpse of how evolution made its first stabs at producing mammals.
5. The platypus is the only mammal to make venom, and the chemicals in it are almost identical to those in some snake venoms.